-Daniel Nunez ·State officials needed a place to deliberate that was quiet 1.Complained that the ringing of the funeral bells was disturbing 2.Local authorities banned the practice ·Talk about turning lower Manhattan into the federal district foresaw in the constitution 1.One plan was moving Governors Island across the harbor for a presidential mansion 2.Demolition of Anglo-Dutch fort summer 1789 3.Once taken down workers began a three story building with large quarters for all three branches of government. 4.“When finish 2 years later government house, as it was called, commanded spectacular harbor views and an elegant waterfront promenade.” ·New York is very diverse; there are a lot of things to do. 1.Reopening of john street theater 2.New race track behind DeLancey mansion 3.Establishment of Broadway ·Officials weren’t sure if New York would be a permanent spot because of its un balanced of poverty and wealth ·New York was the only place where you can find all the English luxuries and fashion. 1.New Yorkers still celebrated the king’s birthday even after they just fought a revolutionary war with them. 2.There were still people loyal to Britain or had some relations with people from Britain. 3.In the spring of 1790 as secretary of state Jefferson would be the only republican in town. ·Most people would worship the President George Washington and his wife; attending his Tuesday afternoon levees and her Friday evening receptions ·Full dress was required for everyone who attends these events. ·Washington moved from his official residence from Cherry Street to the mansion built by Alexander Macomb (an even grander house at a better address) ·Rent was twenty-five hundred dollars per year. ·New York was compared to Connecticut with its beauty and temperate climate ·John Bard a local physician and president of the medical society stated that New York was one of the healthiest cities of the continent” even with all the illness that was going around Moneyed Men ·Continental securities as good investments ·As early as 1786 a man name William Duer owned sixty-seven thousand dollars’ worth of continental paper outright and another two hundred thousand in partnership with half a dozen other New York investors ·As investors became more certain that the new federal government would take immediate steps to put the nation’s finances in order. ·New York afforded speculators two advantages. 1.Rapid population growth 2.Stream of immigrants with cash, credit, and connections 3.Summer of 1789 brought word that southern state securities were both cheap and plentiful (some selling for as little as ten cents on the dollar. 4.The next month odd new Yorkers made 2.7 million dollars or worth of south Carolina, north Carolina and Virginia obligations 5.A firm of Herman LeRoy and William Bayard with a combine of over 580,000 lead the pack ·Hamilton had a financial plan to boost the value of state and federal rights’ 1.Secretary Duer was deeply involved in the plan 2.Hamilton knew what Duer was doing and did nothing this lead to a widespread suspicion that he was masterminding a corrupt conspiracy against the republic. ·“The document came in mid- January 1790 when congress received from Hamilton a fifty- page report relative to public credit.” 1.Foreign and domestic depts. Of the united states amounted to some fifty-four million dollars 2.State depts. Came to another 25 million dollars(country totaled to 8 million) 3.The federal was enough to cover the interest on the dept and people were waiting for there money for years 4.Critical juncture in American history ·No one was paying the national debt. 1.Hamilton would think about how to approach the problem 2.One thing he though he should do was to consolidate all the foreign and national debt 3.Another one was to fund amount which would mean it would provide important revenue and pay part of the principle every year 4.Hamilton had 6 ideas congress chose the one that called for state and federal creditors to exchange their old notes for new 6 percent federal stock ·Hamilton stated that without funding and assumption the US would never achieve the stability, prosperity, and strength it needed to stay alive 1.England had some sort of government that was build the way Hamilton wanted it to be 2.If it succeeded they would profit; if it failed they would lose 3.Funding and assumption would do a lot of good thing: cement the union by enhancing the authority and reputation of the central government. It would also help economically too funding and assumption would do wonder for the country 4.Public confidence in government stock would enable it to function like money increasing` the money supply, decreasing interest rates; stimulating the development of agriculture, commerce and industry. ·When word got around of Hamilton plan new York people went wild ·Antifederalists like George Clinton and melancton smith rebelled ·William Duer resigned from the treasury ·Through his wide network of connections he encourage the influx of millions dollars of several states and foreign countries The compromise of 1790 ·Hamilton proposals created fiery with people who lived in New York and around the area 1.Funding at par was legalizing fraud critics would say. 2.Assumption angered the south 3.Northern states owed a disproportionate share of debts Hamilton propose to take over ·James Madison rallied Hamilton proposals with two of his own: no assumption of state debts at all and no funding of the national debt ·Madison debates went into congress and out for weeks, but the house denied his idea ·It was at the juncture of when Hamilton was fearful that assumption wouldn’t survive a decisive ballot ·Jefferson recalled the Hamilton offered a compromise ·The would meet outside the street in front of the president house ·Hamilton begged Jefferson to reassure southern congressmen that assumption was vital to the well-being of the republic in return he would round up enough northern votes to move the national capital to the site on the Potomac river. ·Poughkeepsie convention New York federalist said that the federal government would remain in New York 1.Early in July that year congress voted to build a permanent capital in a ten-mile-square federal district on the Potomac 2.In waiting for it to be build the government stood in Philadelphia 3.During that time congress approved assumption as well as funding ·Assumption and funding bills restored between forty and sixty million dollars
Doc 305-307 -Young Lee Primary Source :Hamilton Topic Sentence: Federalists wanted the federal government to remain in New York.
Congress voted to build a permanent capital in the federal district of the Potomac.
Hamilton’s assumption plan was approved.
The government failed to remain in NY and moved back to Philadelphia.
Topic Sentence: New Yorkers were regretting and grieved when the government had to depart.
New Yorkers believed that they couldn’t do the things they normally do without the federal government.
New Yorkers blamed Pennsylvanians for this.
Topic Sentence: Due to various successful events, the departure was long forgotten.
The assumption plan was going well, repaid 40-60 million.
New York has prospered.
State government invested millions of money.
New York was thought to be secure, regardless of having a capital or not.
Topic Sentence: United States had a separation of powers-an economic one and a governmental one.
Separation of powers was greatly emphasized in the constitution.
Unlike the U.S, many other western countries like Europe didn’t have separation of powers; politics, business and culture were all in one place.
Topic Sentence: New Yorkers wanted NY to become an industrial manufacturing city.
They thought workshops weren’t enough.
They wanted English-style factories running.
Businessmen formed a group: “New York Manufacturing Society” to encourage industrial manufacturing.
George Washington and the new government helped the promotion of a manufacturing economy.
Topic Sentence: The Manufacturing Society managed to open a textile factory.
It had cost 57,500 to build it.
Samuel Slater was the one who built the first successful cotton mill in the U.S
Topic Sentence: There was lots of industrial competition.
Workers wanted protection for their infant industries against foreign competition, especially Britain.
Topic Sentence: New York had faced many obstacles and disadvantages when it came to manufacturing. Manhattan lacked the water power for factories and mills. l Real estates and land were expensive. l There were foreign competition l Workers and owners were inexperienced in skill and management. l People started to think that the idea of a industrial-manufacturing economy was folly.
Chart :
Task Item 1: What were Alexander Hamilton's and Thomas Jefferson's view on the proper economic path for the future of the United States?
Primary SOurces:
-Doc. 3: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791. -Doc. 4: Notes About Yeomen Farming.
Secondary Sources: -Doc. 6: A history of new york city. -Doc. 5:Alexander Hamilton DVD
Task Item 2: What role did these two opposing philosophies play in the relocation of the capital of the United States from New York City to Washington, D.C.?
-Doc. 2: The Compromise of 1790 -Doc.3: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791. -Doc.4: Notes About Yeomen Farming.
-Doc. 5: Alexander Hamilton DVD -Doc. 1: The compromise of 1790
Task Item 3: How does the debate over the relocation of the captial and the Compromise of 1790 foreshadow the growing sectional crisis of the nineteenth century, culminating in the fighting of the American Civil War?
-Doc.2: The compromise of 1790
-Doc. 6: A history of new york city. -Doc 5: Alexander Hamilton DVD -Doc. 1: The compromise of 1790
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
What were Alexander Hamilton's and Thomas Jefferson's view on the proper economic path for the future of the United States?
-Doc. 3 Alexander Hamilton
Envision a developed American Economy, 1791
-Doc. 4: Notes About Yeomen Farming
A history of New York
What role did these two opposing philosophies play in the relocation of the capital of the United States from New York City to Washington, D.C.?
Doc. 2: the compromise of 1790
Doc. 3: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791.
Doc.4: Notes About Yeomen Farming
Searching for the souls Doc: 306 and 307
How does the debate over the relocation of the capital and the Compromise of 1790 foreshadow the growing sectional crisis of the nineteenth century, culminating in the fighting of the American Civil War?
Alexander Hamilton DVD
Alexander Hamilton DVD
Jefferson Yeoman Farmers
Daniel Nunez
Daniel Nunez
July 16, 2008
DBQ Essay
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were two political figures that had two philosophies on how the United States should be managed. Alexander Hamilton was a federalist and ruled a strong national government over weak states. Thomas Jefferson was an anti federalist and favored strong states over a strong national government. These two different mind sets in one presidential cabinet made it more difficult to pay the debt after the revolutionary war and gave the two a reason to settle the compromise 1790 that would move the capital to Washington D.C.
Alexander Hamilton thought the future of America was in the hands of commerce and business. Hamilton’s controversial idea was that he wanted a big national bank to pay the debt after the war. Hamilton also likes the idea of funding and assumption, but for future use too. (Hamilton American economy page 2/searching for the soul 303) Hamilton was the treasurer and he dealt with the money of the United States this made his ideas have a say in the countries decisions. Alexander Hamilton was what you can call a “moneyed men”
Thomas Jefferson thought that if people have their own land then they should be treated with the privacy they demand. (Yeoman farmers) Jefferson didn’t agree with Hamilton’s idea one hundred percent mainly because he thought he gave to much power to the states who ruled commerce and business. Jefferson thought that if people weren’t free to do what they wanted like grow what ever crops they wanted for example then the banks would take the money form the farmers.
People wouldn’t agree with this plan and some of the people that were involved with the plan would later withdraw from the involvement. A number of people disliked Hamilton’s idea to fund and the practice of assumption, one of whom was Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson knew that Hamilton would get what he wanted, but Jefferson did not let him get everything he wanted. Jefferson decided to settle a compromise. His compromise stated that everything can be formed from Hamilton plan, but as long as the nations capital moves to the Potomac River. This is further south also where agricultural takes place. (searching for the soul 304 and 305) This compromise allowed both the north, where there was a lot of business, and the south, where it had a lot of farming, to be equally managed. The compromise also had a bad effect to it because with two different morals and ideas this leads to rebellion with the two regions. (Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson video) This compromise effects the starting of the civil war because the south would start to become too uncivilized and the north didn’t want the same thing happen to them so Abraham Lincoln would try to preserve the union. Once North Carolina succeeded from the union the civil war started.
The story of the making of metropolis comes all the way back to when the colonies were starting to become into a nation. Alexander Hamilton made a big difference in the future of the United States because without Hamilton the country would have a lot of conflicts and we probably have 50 states. Thomas Jefferson was also important to the development of the untied states because he showed a somewhat of a good sense of what freedom and liberty is. These two ideas merge to become into the making of a metropolis.
When people hear Frankenstein they tend to think of the movie made in 1931 but they do not realize that the first Frankenstein movie was made in 1910. The history behind the movie Frankenstein, made by the Edison Company, and the one we are familiar with is a lot different. The Edison studio was first located in West Orange, New Jersey and then later moved to Manhattan. When they wanted to advanced the quality of their pictures, they decided to move to the Bronx to take advantage of the leveled landscape to film more efficiently. The relocation of the Edison Studios to the Bronx is important because the Bronx Studio made the producing of movies more efficient, both in length and quality. Before the Edison studio in the Bronx there was the one located in West Orange, which began Edison’s movie business. The studio was a small red-bricked building which consisted of several floors. In this mall New Jersey studio was the mark to all the great things that Edison had to give to the film industry. The lack of space in the studio in New Jersey forced Porter and his crew to move to a new studio with better movie-making conditions. The films that were made in New Jersey were really dull in both the concept of the movie and length. The film that was observed was called The Burning of the Standard Oil Co's Tanks and the graphics were very vague whereas I couldn't see what was happening because it was so dark and it looked as if it was filmed in a really dark area. Nobody knew was looking straight at the camera as they just walked on and a car would keep appearing. The concept in the film was a bit out of the ordinary because they would only film in one spot and it looked as if they left camera there over night and forgot they left it there. There was no music in the background like there was in the films that were made in the Bronx. The duration of the film was barely 2 minutes. Edison’s business soon out grew the building leading him to move to a new location- Manhattan. The second facility was a glass-enclosed, rooftop studio built at 41 East 21st Street in Manhattan's entertainment district. This building was more modern then the building in New Jersey but this building had some defects because of the building surrounding it blocked all the natural lighting. This led them to have a glass roof for no reason because they were unable to use it.a movie made in while in Manhattan studio was the Electrocution of the Elephant. The movie was about an elephant that is dying as its being filmed. The film looked really slow and the graphics were a little dark and full of static. It looked as if a big event was being held and the broadcaster made just in time. The film was about a minute long. So this made them move again because Edison needed more sophisticated space to continue expanding. So the new Edison Studios was purchased on June 20th, 1905. It was located on Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place in the Bronx. This studio was a much better location for various reasons. First of all, the Bronx was very secluded and not many people would be interrupting their film making. The Bronx Edison building was three stories high and within its walls had offices, dressing rooms, chemical laboratories, dark rooms, tank rooms and drying halls. The new building had more modifications. (Porter Resists 387) The new building had many better qualities than the old building. Such as a glass roof, water tank, and better equipment that can be used for the production necessities. Most of these improvements weren’t found in the old Edison building such like in the Black Maria in New Jersey or the Edison studio in Manhattan. Another reason why the Edison decided to relocate to the Bronx was its geographical location. Like the design studio in Manhattan they to had the glass roof but unlike the Manhattan studio had a glass roof in the Manhattan studio was surrounded by many high-rise buildings. This blocked out the sun coming into the studio most of the time, defeating the purpose of the roof. On the contrary, in the Bronx not many building were high enough to prevent the light from coming in. (Edison Manufacturing Co. Oct. 1st, 1907) That leads into the next reason for this beneficial relocation. They bought this plot of land for $15,000 at 100 x 100 feet. The property was previously owned by Frederick Fox and Company, real estate dealers. The price was much lower than the other places and the location was pretty close to perfect. Joseph McCoy, who found the site for this new structure, let Mr. Gilmore, Moore, Edwin Porter and Pelzer know of this location and they jumped on the offer. Porter and his crew moved into their headquarters on July 11th, 1907. (Porter Resists 385) The structure made an L-shape, taking up the north side of Oliver Place and the east side of Decatur Avenue. The studio was built using reinforced concrete. The building was promised to be completed just before Christmas of 1905, but delays came about. So it was newly announced to be completed by the fall. They had scheduled to have pictures taken way before the building was completed. The cost of all this renovation and construction was estimated to be about $50,000; the actual price was $39,557- not including the land. (Porter Resists 385) Construction continued for about a year. The old Edison Studio was on the top floor of a sky light roof. Dawley could recall the memories of those days, “Every time we started to take a picture we would have to run out on the roof next door and see if the sun would pass over a cloud…our 21st street studio was about the size of a large office room.” (Porter Resists 386) So although this was a huge and expensive transition, it was definitely for the best. This made the movies in the Bronx more efficient and better in quality. Movies such like Rescue from an Eagle’s Nest and another movie was called Cupid’s Prank. Some comparisons made between the studios are that in the Edison Studios of the Bronx they recorded a series of events in one location, instead of having different scenery, like the Bronx studio had. Rescue from an Eagle’s Nest and Cupid’s Prank were also one of the films that had actors and had good non-fictional conflicts. These two movies were the corner stone of the new Edison Studio and it made filming a big part of entertainment. Rescue from an Eagle’s Nest is a short film about a couple who has a new born baby that was kidnapped by an eagle. When the mother had found out that her baby was gone she went rushing to her husband to tell him the horrific news. The father gets out of the middle of working and goes off to save his daughter. With the help of his fellow workers and lovely wife they finally rescue their daughter’s life. The quality was way better from the film that was filmed in New Jersey because at this time quality should be quiet visible and you could clearly see what was going on during the course of the movie. The film had scenes that were filmed indoors and outdoors also the movie had a lot of entertaining music. Cupid’s Prank was a good love story because the storyline was a lot more reasonable for modern movies. The movie was about cupid helping a girl find love mainly because this girl has probably been rejected a few times. When cupid finally help her to find love cupid got in trouble and punish for what he did. The punishment of cupid was probably because he was supposed to save his special powers for a special day. The quality of the movie was visible and the duration of the movie was long enough to finish large popcorn. Cupid's Prank had several scenes and one of the scenes was film with many people around the actors so it had a lot of good stage directions. With this concludes the whole purpose as to why the Edison studio relocation and why it’s movement led to the better quality of their movies and length.
· State officials needed a place to deliberate that was quiet
1. Complained that the ringing of the funeral bells was disturbing
2. Local authorities banned the practice
· Talk about turning lower Manhattan into the federal district foresaw in the constitution
1. One plan was moving Governors Island across the harbor for a presidential mansion
2. Demolition of Anglo-Dutch fort summer 1789
3. Once taken down workers began a three story building with large quarters for all three branches of government.
4. “When finish 2 years later government house, as it was called, commanded spectacular harbor views and an elegant waterfront promenade.”
· New York is very diverse; there are a lot of things to do.
1. Reopening of john street theater
2. New race track behind DeLancey mansion
3. Establishment of Broadway
· Officials weren’t sure if New York would be a permanent spot because of its un balanced of poverty and wealth
· New York was the only place where you can find all the English luxuries and fashion.
1. New Yorkers still celebrated the king’s birthday even after they just fought a revolutionary war with them.
2. There were still people loyal to Britain or had some relations with people from Britain.
3. In the spring of 1790 as secretary of state Jefferson would be the only republican in town.
· Most people would worship the President George Washington and his wife; attending his Tuesday afternoon levees and her Friday evening receptions
· Full dress was required for everyone who attends these events.
· Washington moved from his official residence from Cherry Street to the mansion built by Alexander Macomb (an even grander house at a better address)
· Rent was twenty-five hundred dollars per year.
· New York was compared to Connecticut with its beauty and temperate climate
· John Bard a local physician and president of the medical society stated that New York was one of the healthiest cities of the continent” even with all the illness that was going around
Moneyed Men
· Continental securities as good investments
· As early as 1786 a man name William Duer owned sixty-seven thousand dollars’ worth of continental paper outright and another two hundred thousand in partnership with half a dozen other New York investors
· As investors became more certain that the new federal government would take immediate steps to put the nation’s finances in order.
· New York afforded speculators two advantages.
1. Rapid population growth
2. Stream of immigrants with cash, credit, and connections
3. Summer of 1789 brought word that southern state securities were both cheap and plentiful (some selling for as little as ten cents on the dollar.
4. The next month odd new Yorkers made 2.7 million dollars or worth of south Carolina, north Carolina and Virginia obligations
5. A firm of Herman LeRoy and William Bayard with a combine of over 580,000 lead the pack
· Hamilton had a financial plan to boost the value of state and federal rights’
1. Secretary Duer was deeply involved in the plan
2. Hamilton knew what Duer was doing and did nothing this lead to a widespread suspicion that he was masterminding a corrupt conspiracy against the republic.
· “The document came in mid- January 1790 when congress received from Hamilton a fifty- page report relative to public credit.”
1. Foreign and domestic depts. Of the united states amounted to some fifty-four million dollars
2. State depts. Came to another 25 million dollars(country totaled to 8 million)
3. The federal was enough to cover the interest on the dept and people were waiting for there money for years
4. Critical juncture in American history
· No one was paying the national debt.
1. Hamilton would think about how to approach the problem
2. One thing he though he should do was to consolidate all the foreign and national debt
3. Another one was to fund amount which would mean it would provide important revenue and pay part of the principle every year
4. Hamilton had 6 ideas congress chose the one that called for state and federal creditors to exchange their old notes for new 6 percent federal stock
· Hamilton stated that without funding and assumption the US would never achieve the stability, prosperity, and strength it needed to stay alive
1. England had some sort of government that was build the way Hamilton wanted it to be
2. If it succeeded they would profit; if it failed they would lose
3. Funding and assumption would do a lot of good thing: cement the union by enhancing the authority and reputation of the central government. It would also help economically too funding and assumption would do wonder for the country
4. Public confidence in government stock would enable it to function like money increasing` the money supply, decreasing interest rates; stimulating the development of agriculture, commerce and industry.
· When word got around of Hamilton plan new York people went wild
· Antifederalists like George Clinton and melancton smith rebelled
· William Duer resigned from the treasury
· Through his wide network of connections he encourage the influx of millions dollars of several states and foreign countries
The compromise of 1790
· Hamilton proposals created fiery with people who lived in New York and around the area
1. Funding at par was legalizing fraud critics would say.
2. Assumption angered the south
3. Northern states owed a disproportionate share of debts Hamilton propose to take over
· James Madison rallied Hamilton proposals with two of his own: no assumption of state debts at all and no funding of the national debt
· Madison debates went into congress and out for weeks, but the house denied his idea
· It was at the juncture of when Hamilton was fearful that assumption wouldn’t survive a decisive ballot
· Jefferson recalled the Hamilton offered a compromise
· The would meet outside the street in front of the president house
· Hamilton begged Jefferson to reassure southern congressmen that assumption was vital to the well-being of the republic in return he would round up enough northern votes to move the national capital to the site on the Potomac river.
· Poughkeepsie convention New York federalist said that the federal government would remain in New York
1. Early in July that year congress voted to build a permanent capital in a ten-mile-square federal district on the Potomac
2. In waiting for it to be build the government stood in Philadelphia
3. During that time congress approved assumption as well as funding
· Assumption and funding bills restored between forty and sixty million dollars
Doc 305-307 -Young Lee
Primary Source :Hamilton
Topic Sentence: Federalists wanted the federal government to remain in New York.
Topic Sentence: New Yorkers were regretting and grieved when the government had to depart.
- New Yorkers believed that they couldn’t do the things they normally do without the federal government.
- New Yorkers blamed Pennsylvanians for this.
Topic Sentence: Due to various successful events, the departure was long forgotten.- The assumption plan was going well, repaid 40-60 million.
- New York has prospered.
- State government invested millions of money.
- New York was thought to be secure, regardless of having a capital or not.
Topic Sentence: United States had a separation of powers-an economic one and a governmental one.- Separation of powers was greatly emphasized in the constitution.
- Unlike the U.S, many other western countries like Europe didn’t have separation of powers; politics, business and culture were all in one place.
Topic Sentence: New Yorkers wanted NY to become an industrial manufacturing city.- They thought workshops weren’t enough.
- They wanted English-style factories running.
- Businessmen formed a group: “New York Manufacturing Society” to encourage industrial manufacturing.
- George Washington and the new government helped the promotion of a manufacturing economy.
Topic Sentence: The Manufacturing Society managed to open a textile factory.- It had cost 57,500 to build it.
- Samuel Slater was the one who built the first successful cotton mill in the U.S
Topic Sentence: There was lots of industrial competition.- Workers wanted protection for their infant industries against foreign competition, especially Britain.
Topic Sentence: New York had faced many obstacles and disadvantages when it came to manufacturing.Manhattan lacked the water power for factories and mills.
l Real estates and land were expensive.
l There were foreign competition
l Workers and owners were inexperienced in skill and management.
l People started to think that the idea of a industrial-manufacturing economy was folly.
Chart :
What were Alexander Hamilton's and Thomas Jefferson's view on the proper economic path for the future of the United States?
-Doc. 3: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791.
-Doc. 4: Notes About Yeomen Farming.
-Doc. 6: A history of new york city.
-Doc. 5:Alexander Hamilton DVD
What role did these two opposing philosophies play in the relocation of the capital of the United States from New York City to Washington, D.C.?
-Doc.3: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791.
-Doc.4: Notes About Yeomen Farming.
-Doc. 1: The compromise of 1790
How does the debate over the relocation of the captial and the Compromise of 1790 foreshadow the growing sectional crisis of the nineteenth century, culminating in the fighting of the American Civil War?
-Doc 5: Alexander Hamilton DVD
-Doc. 1: The compromise of 1790
Envision a developed American Economy, 1791
-Doc. 4: Notes About Yeomen Farming
Doc. 3: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American Economy, 1791.
Doc.4: Notes About Yeomen Farming
Jefferson Yeoman Farmers
Daniel Nunez
July 16, 2008
DBQ Essay
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were two political figures that had two philosophies on how the United States should be managed. Alexander Hamilton was a federalist and ruled a strong national government over weak states. Thomas Jefferson was an anti federalist and favored strong states over a strong national government. These two different mind sets in one presidential cabinet made it more difficult to pay the debt after the revolutionary war and gave the two a reason to settle the compromise 1790 that would move the capital to Washington D.C.
Alexander Hamilton thought the future of America was in the hands of commerce and business. Hamilton’s controversial idea was that he wanted a big national bank to pay the debt after the war. Hamilton also likes the idea of funding and assumption, but for future use too. (Hamilton American economy page 2/searching for the soul 303) Hamilton was the treasurer and he dealt with the money of the United States this made his ideas have a say in the countries decisions. Alexander Hamilton was what you can call a “moneyed men”
Thomas Jefferson thought that if people have their own land then they should be treated with the privacy they demand. (Yeoman farmers) Jefferson didn’t agree with Hamilton’s idea one hundred percent mainly because he thought he gave to much power to the states who ruled commerce and business. Jefferson thought that if people weren’t free to do what they wanted like grow what ever crops they wanted for example then the banks would take the money form the farmers.
People wouldn’t agree with this plan and some of the people that were involved with the plan would later withdraw from the involvement. A number of people disliked Hamilton’s idea to fund and the practice of assumption, one of whom was Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson knew that Hamilton would get what he wanted, but Jefferson did not let him get everything he wanted. Jefferson decided to settle a compromise. His compromise stated that everything can be formed from Hamilton plan, but as long as the nations capital moves to the Potomac River. This is further south also where agricultural takes place. (searching for the soul 304 and 305) This compromise allowed both the north, where there was a lot of business, and the south, where it had a lot of farming, to be equally managed. The compromise also had a bad effect to it because with two different morals and ideas this leads to rebellion with the two regions. (Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson video) This compromise effects the starting of the civil war because the south would start to become too uncivilized and the north didn’t want the same thing happen to them so Abraham Lincoln would try to preserve the union. Once North Carolina succeeded from the union the civil war started.
The story of the making of metropolis comes all the way back to when the colonies were starting to become into a nation. Alexander Hamilton made a big difference in the future of the United States because without Hamilton the country would have a lot of conflicts and we probably have 50 states. Thomas Jefferson was also important to the development of the untied states because he showed a somewhat of a good sense of what freedom and liberty is. These two ideas merge to become into the making of a metropolis.
When people hear Frankenstein they tend to think of the movie made in 1931 but they do not realize that the first Frankenstein movie was made in 1910. The history behind the movie Frankenstein, made by the Edison Company, and the one we are familiar with is a lot different. The Edison studio was first located in West Orange, New Jersey and then later moved to Manhattan. When they wanted to advanced the quality of their pictures, they decided to move to the Bronx to take advantage of the leveled landscape to film more efficiently. The relocation of the Edison Studios to the Bronx is important because the Bronx Studio made the producing of movies more efficient, both in length and quality.
Before the Edison studio in the Bronx there was the one located in West Orange, which began Edison’s movie business. The studio was a small red-bricked building which consisted of several floors. In this mall New Jersey studio was the mark to all the great things that Edison had to give to the film industry. The lack of space in the studio in New Jersey forced Porter and his crew to move to a new studio with better movie-making conditions. The films that were made in New Jersey were really dull in both the concept of the movie and length. The film that was observed was called The Burning of the Standard Oil Co's Tanks and the graphics were very vague whereas I couldn't see what was happening because it was so dark and it looked as if it was filmed in a really dark area. Nobody knew was looking straight at the camera as they just walked on and a car would keep appearing. The concept in the film was a bit out of the ordinary because they would only film in one spot and it looked as if they left camera there over night and forgot they left it there. There was no music in the background like there was in the films that were made in the Bronx. The duration of the film was barely 2 minutes.
Edison’s business soon out grew the building leading him to move to a new location- Manhattan.
The second facility was a glass-enclosed, rooftop studio built at 41 East 21st Street in Manhattan's entertainment district. This building was more modern then the building in New Jersey but this building had some defects because of the building surrounding it blocked all the natural lighting. This led them to have a glass roof for no reason because they were unable to use it.a movie made in while in Manhattan studio was the Electrocution of the Elephant. The movie was about an elephant that is dying as its being filmed. The film looked really slow and the graphics were a little dark and full of static. It looked as if a big event was being held and the broadcaster made just in time. The film was about a minute long.
So this made them move again because Edison needed more sophisticated space to continue expanding.
So the new Edison Studios was purchased on June 20th, 1905. It was located on Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place in the Bronx. This studio was a much better location for various reasons. First of all, the Bronx was very secluded and not many people would be interrupting their film making. The Bronx Edison building was three stories high and within its walls had offices, dressing rooms, chemical laboratories, dark rooms, tank rooms and drying halls. The new building had more modifications. (Porter Resists 387) The new building had many better qualities than the old building. Such as a glass roof, water tank, and better equipment that can be used for the production necessities. Most of these improvements weren’t found in the old Edison building such like in the Black Maria in New Jersey or the Edison studio in Manhattan.
Another reason why the Edison decided to relocate to the Bronx was its geographical location. Like the design studio in Manhattan they to had the glass roof but unlike the Manhattan studio had a glass roof in the Manhattan studio was surrounded by many high-rise buildings. This blocked out the sun coming into the studio most of the time, defeating the purpose of the roof. On the contrary, in the Bronx not many building were high enough to prevent the light from coming in. (Edison Manufacturing Co. Oct. 1st, 1907) That leads into the next reason for this beneficial relocation. They bought this plot of land for $15,000 at 100 x 100 feet. The property was previously owned by Frederick Fox and Company, real estate dealers. The price was much lower than the other places and the location was pretty close to perfect. Joseph McCoy, who found the site for this new structure, let Mr. Gilmore, Moore, Edwin Porter and Pelzer know of this location and they jumped on the offer. Porter and his crew moved into their headquarters on July 11th, 1907. (Porter Resists 385) The structure made an L-shape, taking up the north side of Oliver Place and the east side of Decatur Avenue. The studio was built using reinforced concrete. The building was promised to be completed just before Christmas of 1905, but delays came about. So it was newly announced to be completed by the fall. They had scheduled to have pictures taken way before the building was completed. The cost of all this renovation and construction was estimated to be about $50,000; the actual price was $39,557- not including the land. (Porter Resists 385) Construction continued for about a year. The old Edison Studio was on the top floor of a sky light roof. Dawley could recall the memories of those days, “Every time we started to take a picture we would have to run out on the roof next door and see if the sun would pass over a cloud…our 21st street studio was about the size of a large office room.” (Porter Resists 386) So although this was a huge and expensive transition, it was definitely for the best.
This made the movies in the Bronx more efficient and better in quality. Movies such like
Rescue from an Eagle’s Nest and another movie was called Cupid’s Prank. Some comparisons made between the studios are that in the Edison Studios of the Bronx they recorded a series of events in one location, instead of having different scenery, like the Bronx studio had. Rescue from an Eagle’s Nest and Cupid’s Prank were also one of the films that had actors and had good non-fictional conflicts. These two movies were the corner stone of the new Edison Studio and it made filming a big part of entertainment. Rescue from an Eagle’s Nest is a short film about a couple who has a new born baby that was kidnapped by an eagle. When the mother had found out that her baby was gone she went rushing to her husband to tell him the horrific news. The father gets out of the middle of working and goes off to save his daughter. With the help of his fellow workers and lovely wife they finally rescue their daughter’s life. The quality was way better from the film that was filmed in New Jersey because at this time quality should be quiet visible and you could clearly see what was going on during the course of the movie. The film had scenes that were filmed indoors and outdoors also the movie had a lot of entertaining music. Cupid’s Prank was a good love story because the storyline was a lot more reasonable for modern movies. The movie was about cupid helping a girl find love mainly because this girl has probably been rejected a few times. When cupid finally help her to find love cupid got in trouble and punish for what he did. The punishment of cupid was probably because he was supposed to save his special powers for a special day. The quality of the movie was visible and the duration of the movie was long enough to finish large popcorn. Cupid's Prank had several scenes and one of the scenes was film with many people around the actors so it had a lot of good stage directions.
With this concludes the whole purpose as to why the Edison studio relocation and why it’s movement led to the better quality of their movies and length.